Word: unericus
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...frescoes showing scenes of Christian martyrdom-St. Margaret, her breast torn with hooks; Bishop Artemius, crushed between stone slabs; Bishop Simeon cut to pieces with knives. But not all martyrdom involves death. One fresco at St. Stephen's tells of a 4th Century persecution of Christians by King Unericus in North Africa. The description reads: "Those who talked and raised their hands against the king had their tongues and hands...
Joseph Mindszenty has lived for three years with the threat of martyrdom hanging over him. He knew it and talked about it, and said he was ready to accept it. He even prepared for the form of martyrdom that overtook him last week, the martyrdom devised by King Unericus-the martyrdom of the tongue that could no longer clearly profess that to which he had dedicated his life...
Since King Unericus cut out tongues, men have not diminished in evil, but they have learned subtler arts and more refined tortures than the knife and pincers. Nobody can prove that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...
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